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-.Macno.ia Purpurgza. PurPLE MAGNoLia, 
Ue aesle-siesie-sie-sie-ale she ale sie ake ae ales eae Seas 
; Clafs and Order. 
 PoLtyANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
ee Generic Charaéer. 7a 
Calyx 9-phyllus,  Petala g... Capfule bivalves imbricata. 
Semina baccata pendula, rie 
Specific Charaéicr. 
MAGNOLIA purpurea floribus hexapetalis, petalis extus — 
Be ee _ purpureis. : 
There is a magnificence about the plants of this genus which 
renders them unfuitable fubje&s of reprefentation in a work 
the fize of ours; nor would it have been in our power to have © 
given a figure of this new and beautiful fpecies, differing fo 
materially from all the others in the colour of its flowers, 
had we not fortunately been favoured by the Countefs of 
Coventry with a fmall plant of it, about’a foot high, which 
flowered with her Ladyfhip in town; we have fince feen much 
larger plants with proportionate flowers. eo ee 
It is a native of China, and is reported to have firft flowere: 
in the colle@ion of the Duke of Porrianp, at Bulftrode; 
regarded as a greenhoufe plant, and moft probably will be 
found hardy enough with a little fhelter to bear the cold o 
_ our winters, A Se ae 
In aconfervatory, when in a flourifhing flate, it will 
during moft of the fummer, and is increafed without mu 
difficulty by layers and cuttings. ee 
Defcription: Stalk fhrubby, round, green, marked wil 
whitifh dots; leayes from three to nine inches long, and from 
one and a half to four broad, ftanding on footflalks of a 
yellowifh colour, ovate, running out to a fharp point, narrowed 
towards the bafe, flightly downy; flower about the fize of 4 
middling tulip, without fcent, cupping fomewhat in the fas 
way, rarely fully expanding, at leaft in the sreenhoufe ; petals 
fix in number, ovate, rather flefhy, the: three outermoft ¢x- 
_ panding more than the three innermoft, all of a purple hue of 
the outfide, bafe, midrib, and veins of a deeper hue, here | nd 
_ there gafhed ; calyx compofed of three leaves, which are very 
fhort, {preading, and turning down a little, of a pale green 
_ colour; ftamina very numerous, filaments fearcely perceivables 
anthere oblong, flefhy, with two cells opening inwar 
piftilla Numerous, forming a conical head, rifing above | 
ftamina, compofed of numerous fhort ftyles placed 
together, one above another, of a purple hue. 
